Out at Wrigley celebrates the 20th anniversary of its trendsetting ‘gay day’ Sunday – Chicago Tribune

“I did an interview way back in 2001, and someone asked me, ‘Why did you do this? And what’s your end goal?’ I said to make any LGBT person feel comfortable going to a very masculine sport and not be treated bad,” Gubrud said. “And also I said my end goal was for openly gay players to play, and for other teams to do (an event). Almost every team does it now, and … I’m ecstatic about it.”